New Business Leads: New LLCs & Corporations (US)

Every newly registered business in five states and three big cities, from the official registries, in one feed:

• State registries (Secretaries of State): new LLCs, corporations, nonprofits, partnerships and assumed names (DBAs) in New York and Colorado (daily), Connecticut (daily, with the business email, NAICS industry and owners), Oregon and Pennsylvania (monthly).
• City registrations: new businesses in Los Angeles and San Francisco (business tax registrations, with NAICS), and new business licenses in Chicago.

Each record comes with the address, owners and officers, registered agent, entity type and status, as each registry publishes them. No account, no API key, no proxies: the data comes from the open data portals of the states and cities.

Who uses it

• Lead generation for services that new businesses buy: business insurance, banking and merchant services, payroll, accounting and tax, legal, web design, signage, office supplies.
• Sales teams and agencies that want brand-new local businesses before anyone else: filter by city, ZIP code, keyword or industry and schedule it daily.
• KYB and research: who registered what, where and when, with the registry number to look it up.

What you get

One record per business. A real Connecticut LLC registered on 2026-10-01 (owner names and email shortened for this page):

{
  "registeredDate": "2026-10-01",
  "businessName": "COVENANT CONSTRUCTION LLC",
  "kind": "llc",
  "entityType": "LLC",
  "domestic": true,
  "status": "Active",
  "jurisdiction": "Connecticut",
  "registry": "state business registry",
  "street": "85 W Meadow Rd",
  "city": "Hamden",
  "state": "CT",
  "zip": "06518",
  "addressKind": "business address",
  "email": "covenant...@gmail.com",
  "naicsCode": "236220",
  "naicsSector": "Construction",
  "activity": "Commercial and Institutional Building Construction",
  "people": [{ "name": "J... D...", "role": "Principal" }],
  "womanOwned": true,
  "minorityOwned": true,
  "registryNumber": "3527132",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.ct.gov/d/n7gp-d28j"
}

Field	What it is
registeredDate	Date of registration: formation or filing date (states), location start (Los Angeles, San Francisco), license issue date (Chicago).
businessName, otherName	Legal name, and the DBA or trade name when there is another one.
kind, entityType, domestic, formedIn	llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, cooperative, assumed-name or other; the official type; false and the home state for out-of-state companies.
status	As the registry writes it (Active, Good Standing, Issued...).
street, city, state, zip, county, addressKind	The business address and what kind it is: principal office, business address, registered office, business location, or service of process (New York, where the business names the address that receives legal papers).
mailingAddress	Mailing address, when the registry gives one.
email	Connecticut only: the business email from the registration. Emails of formation services (registered agents, filing companies) are left out.
naicsCode, naicsSector, activity	Industry code and sector (Connecticut, Los Angeles, San Francisco); activity: NAICS description, or the Chicago license types and business activities.
people	Owners and officers with their role: members, managers, officers and directors (Connecticut, Oregon), organizers and incorporators (Pennsylvania), the person or company that receives legal papers (New York).
registeredAgent	Name and address of the registered agent, and whether it is a company or a person (Colorado, Oregon, New York when it is an agent service).
filer	New York: who filed the papers (often a formation service).
womanOwned, veteranOwned, minorityOwned, disabilityOwned, lgbtqiOwned	Connecticut: ownership the business reported.
registryNumber, filingType, effectiveDate	The registry's number to look it up; New York filing type and effective date.
source, registry, sourceUrl, retrievedAt	The registry, whether it is a state or a city, the dataset, when it was read.
change	With Only new: new or updated.

Input

All registries, this week (the example of the form):

{
  "registeredWithinDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 100
}

New LLCs and corporations in New York and Colorado this week, in Brooklyn and Denver:

{
  "sources": ["new-york", "colorado"],
  "entityKinds": ["llc", "corporation"],
  "cities": ["Brooklyn", "Denver"],
  "registeredWithinDays": 7
}

New restaurants and construction companies in Connecticut this month, with their own email:

{
  "sources": ["connecticut"],
  "keywords": ["restaurant", "construction"],
  "onlyWithEmail": true,
  "registeredWithinDays": 30
}

New food businesses (NAICS 72) in Los Angeles and San Francisco, every day, only the new ones:

{
  "sources": ["los-angeles", "san-francisco"],
  "naicsPrefixes": ["72"],
  "registeredWithinDays": 3,
  "onlyNew": true
}

Field	What it does
sources	new-york, colorado, connecticut, oregon, pennsylvania, los-angeles, san-francisco, chicago. Empty = all.
registeredWithinDays	Businesses registered in the last N days (7 by default).
entityKinds	llc, corporation, nonprofit, partnership, cooperative, assumed-name, other. City registrations have no type: an LLC or Inc. at the end of the name gives it.
keywords	Words in the business name, or in the activity where the registry has one (Connecticut, Los Angeles, Chicago).
cities, zipCodes	Business address; ZIP codes take 5 digits or the first 3.
naicsPrefixes	Industry codes or their first digits (72 = food and lodging, 23 = construction). Connecticut, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
onlyWithEmail	Only businesses with their own email (Connecticut).
includeForeign	Also companies from other states that registered here (on by default).
includeInactive	Also rejected, dissolved, withdrawn or closed registrations (off by default).
includePeople	Owners, officers and organizers (on by default).
maxResults	Businesses saved, newest first (1,000 by default). On the same day the registries take turns, so a small cap still shows all of them.
onlyNew + memoryName	For daily runs: only businesses earlier runs of the same search did not save, or whose status or address changed. The memory lives in a key-value store named us-new-businesses-state.
appToken	Free Socrata app token, optional.

How much it costs

Pay per event: only for the businesses saved. Measured on 2026-10-03, a week brings about 6,700 new filings in New York (formations and DBAs), 3,000 in Colorado, 1,000 in Connecticut, 200 new locations in San Francisco and 150 new licenses in Chicago; Oregon registered about 7,600 businesses in August and Pennsylvania about 10,400 in its latest month. The example (100 businesses, all registries) runs in about 15 seconds.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client can run this Actor as a tool: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=digital_influx/us-new-businesses as a remote MCP server and sign in with your Apify account. It is also one of the tools of Company Research MCP (digital_influx/company-research-mcp) and US & UK Public Records MCP (digital_influx/public-records-mcp), by the same author, made for agents.

Good to know

• How fresh each registry is (2026-10-03): New York, Colorado, Connecticut, San Francisco and Chicago publish with one to three days of delay. Oregon publishes last month's registrations once a month and Pennsylvania about monthly: use 45 days or more to include them. When a registry has nothing in the window, the run says the date of its newest record.
• New York publishes every filing twice; each business is saved once. Formation services (LegalZoom, Northwest, ZenBusiness...) file many of them: their name is in filer, and when one of them receives the legal papers it is the registeredAgent, not the business address.
• Connecticut corporations report their officers with the first annual report: a new corporation may come without people.
• Chicago counts new business licenses: a business that got several new licenses in the window comes once, with all of them in activity.
• Emails and phones are the ones the registries publish. Follow CAN-SPAM, GDPR where it applies, and the TCPA and state rules for calls and texts.
• Requests: one a second per portal, as their robots.txt asks.

Sources and attribution

• New York: New York State Department of State, "Daily Corporation and Other Entity Filing Data", data.ny.gov (dataset k4vb-judh), under the OPEN-NY Terms of Use.
• Colorado: Colorado Department of State, "Business Entities in Colorado", data.colorado.gov (dataset 4ykn-tg5h), public domain.
• Connecticut: Connecticut Secretary of the State, "Connecticut Business Registry - Business Master" and "- Principals", data.ct.gov (datasets n7gp-d28j and ka36-64k6), public domain.
• Oregon: Oregon Secretary of State Corporation Division, "New Businesses Registered Last Month", data.oregon.gov (dataset esjy-u4fc), public domain.
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of State, "Registered Businesses in PA Current by County", data.pa.gov (dataset xvd7-5r2c), public domain.
• Los Angeles: City of Los Angeles Office of Finance, "Listing of Active Businesses", data.lacity.org (dataset 6rrh-rzua), CC0.
• San Francisco: Treasurer & Tax Collector, "Registered Business Locations - San Francisco", data.sf.gov (dataset g8m3-pdis), Open Data Commons PDDL.
• Chicago: Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, "Business Licenses", Chicago Data Portal (dataset r5kz-chrr). This Actor uses data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided by this Actor. The data provided by this Actor is subject to change at any time.

No state or city endorses this Actor or the uses of its results.